Energy Sources Summary; Detailed Analysis In The Flow Mobile App; Swimming Metrics; Pool Swimming - Polar Electro VANTAGE M2 User Manual

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During physical activity, your body uses carbohydrates and fat as main sources of energy. The higher your training

intensity, the more carbs you use in proportion to fat, and vice versa. The role of protein is usually quite small, but during

high intensity activity and during long sessions your body can use about 5 to 10 % of its energy from protein.

We calculate the use of different energy sources based on your heart rate, but we also take your physical settings into

account. These include your age, gender, height, weight, maximum heart rate, resting heart rate, VO2max, aerobic

threshold and anaerobic threshold. It's important that you've set these settings as precisely as possible so you'll get the

most accurate energy source consumption data.

ENERGY SOURCES SUMMARY

After your session, you'll see the following information the training summary:

Carbs, protein and fat you've used during your session.

In the Flow app you can also view how much of these sources you used at each point

of your session and how they accumulated throughout it. The graph shows how

your body makes use of different energy sources at different training intensities,

and also at different stages of your training session. You can also compare the

breakdown from similar sessions over time, and see how your ability to use fat as

the primary energy source develops.

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energy sources

Swimming metrics help you analyze each swimming session, and follow your performance and progress in the long run.

To get the most accurate information, make sure your have set which hand you wear your watch on. You can

check that you've set which hand you wear your watch from the product settings in Flow.

When using the Swimming or Pool swimming profile, the watch identifies your swimming style and records your swim

distance, time and pace, stroke rate and rest times. In addition, with the help of the SWOLF score you can keep track of

Note that you shouldn't interpret the used energy sources and their amounts as

guidelines when eating after your session.

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